Thierry Laronde writes: > > The procedure can be divided in a couple of stages: > > 1. initial contact
I think he's missing step 0, "wait". > Even for somebody like me, not even a debian maintener, the problems > are obvious. And it's clear that the problem is not related to the > new mainteners. Absolutely. Most developers I have had contact with have been very friendly and helpful. Other people just leave mail unanswered for months. > A maintener will have an address like [EMAIL PROTECTED] This > way, he would not be psychologically encouraged to break the > upstream version just in order to prove he is a 'developer'. *huge evil grin* You are so right.... Well, i'd be for that proposal. Anyone else? > Asking to join Debian will be, necessarily : becoming first a > maintener, and *choosing a package in the orphaned ones* ( this list > will be huge, if every 'maintener not maintening' is pushed out ). OK. I've had a sponsored NMU done for me already, because of a smiliar situation... -- Decklin Written with Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org/
